{"id":26484,"date":"2018-12-26T11:28:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T00:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/?p=26484"},"modified":"2018-12-26T11:35:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T00:35:10","slug":"maayong-pasko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/maayong-pasko\/","title":{"rendered":"Maayong Pasko."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Maayong Pasko!!!&#8217; &#8212;it&#8217;s how you say, &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8217; in our hometown dialect. I&#8217;m currently out of Sydney and staying in Cebu (Philippines) for about 6 weeks to spend much needed family time with my parents, siblings, in-laws and friends.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond grateful that we are here again (after 10 years not spending Christmas here) \u00a0and for the first time, Pixie is able to spend Christmas, the Filipino way.<\/p>\n<p>This year , I also encouraged my family that we didn&#8217;t aim to put wrapped gifts under our little Christmas tree (except a few for Pixie) to hopefully waste lesser on material things and instead focus on how we can add more value to our time together, have more meals together, go on trips together and enjoy mostly what little time we have again left before we go back to Sydney again, while my sister (based in Canada) and my brother (based in Singapore) flies back soon too.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing a few photos I managed to take on our simple Christmas eve celebration at home&#8230; not a complete photo yet (the Lolo &#8220;grandpa&#8221; already slept even before Christmas eve haha)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26485\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JSP_8510.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1068\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26486\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JSP_8514.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1068\" height=\"1600\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26488\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JSP_8518.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1068\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26489\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JSP_8521.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1068\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26490\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JSP_8540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1068\" height=\"1600\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26492\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JSP_8543.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1068\" height=\"1600\" \/>Pixie&#8217;s first Filipino Christmas celebration.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26494\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JSP_8545.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1068\" height=\"1600\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The strongest pillar of our home, my dear Mama Lucing.<\/em><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26495\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JSP_8547.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1068\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26496\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JSP_8548.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1068\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26497\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JSP_8550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1068\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26498\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JSP_8557.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1068\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26500\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JSP_8560.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1068\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Best Christmas gift seeing images like this.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26502\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JSP_8567.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1068\" height=\"1600\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26503\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JSP_8568.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1068\" \/><br \/>\nDear sister, Joan, came home after 8years of living away in Canada.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26504\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JSP_8570.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1068\" \/><br \/>\nour youngest brother, who isnt little anymore at all haha, bonding closely with Pixie.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26505\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JSP_8571.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1068\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26508\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JSP_8575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1068\" height=\"1600\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26510\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JSP_8578.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1068\" height=\"1600\" \/><br \/>\nMy Mama already looking sleepy haha<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26512\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JSP_8582.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1068\" height=\"1600\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26506 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JSP_8573.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1068\" height=\"1600\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26518\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JSP_8602.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1068\" height=\"1600\" \/><br \/>\nFrom my family to yours, Hope you all had a merry and meaningful Christmas with your dear ones.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26515\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JSP_8592.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1068\" height=\"1600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Maayong Pasko!!!&#8217; &#8212;it&#8217;s how you say, &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8217; in our hometown dialect. I&#8217;m currently out of Sydney and staying in Cebu (Philippines) for about 6 weeks to spend much needed family time with my parents, siblings, in-laws and friends. Beyond grateful that we are here again (after 10 years not spending Christmas here) \u00a0and for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[543,48,246,1388,1387,318,582,749,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-26484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-travel","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-cebu","10":"tag-christmas","11":"tag-christmas-in-cebu","12":"tag-pasko","13":"tag-philippines","14":"tag-sydney","15":"tag-sydney-filipino-photographer","16":"tag-sydneysider"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JSP_8510.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26484"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26525,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26484\/revisions\/26525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}